Abstract:This essay locates Saidiya Hartman’s travel and writing in relationship to a longer and multifaceted legacy of black travel that includes the coerced movement of black people across the Atlantic during the slave trade, the migratory travel of black diasporic peoples, and African American tourism to Africa, Ghana in particular. Moreover, this paper argues that Hartman’s text challenges us to build bridges across the boundaries we often construct between these various types of movement, enabling us to see the tenuous ways in which these journeys intersect. Pushing beyond narrow definitions of travel, this essay questions singular frameworks that focus on a single type of journey, as they lead to incomplete readings of African American travel texts, like Hartman’s Lose Your Mother, that foreground a wide range of journeys—forced journeys of slavery, journeys of flight and displacement, as well as voluntary journeys of privilege. This study expands scholarship on Hartman by tending to the fluid and multiple geographies and itineraries at the center of her travel text, making visible the complexities of black people’s journeys in the past and present and illustrating how those complex journeys produce varying perspectives on slavery and freedom.

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在赛迪亚哈特曼的《失去你的母亲》中寻找“自由领土”

摘要：本文将赛迪亚·哈特曼的旅行和写作与黑人旅行的长期和多方面遗产相关联，其中包括黑人在奴隶贸易期间被迫横渡大西洋的运动、散居海外的黑人的迁徙旅行和非裔美国人的旅游。非洲，特别是加纳。此外，本文认为哈特曼的文本挑战我们跨越我们经常在这些不同类型的运动之间构建的边界建立桥梁，使我们能够看到这些旅程相交的脆弱方式。这篇文章超越了旅行的狭隘定义，质疑了专注于单一类型旅行的单一框架，因为它们导致对非裔美国人旅行文本的不完整阅读，如哈特曼的《失去你的母亲》，这预示着一系列广泛的旅程——奴隶制的强迫旅程、逃亡和流离失所的旅程，以及特权的自愿旅程。这项研究通过关注哈特曼旅行文本中心的流动性和多地域性和行程，扩大了对哈特曼的学术研究，使过去和现在的黑人旅程的复杂性可见，并说明了这些复杂的旅程如何产生对奴隶制和自由的不同观点.